Nuclear Diplomacy

By

Tim Annett

Updated June 21, 2006 4:58 p.m. ET

President Bush huddled in Europe with allies, and though deep concerns about U.S. antiterrorism policies hung over the Vienna meeting, perhaps no issue before the assembled leaders was more pressing than the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and Iran.

Iran has been on the front burner since the regime announced in April that it had successfully enriched uranium, in a ceremony complete with flittering doves and dancers whirling about with what were said to be vials of nuclear material. But North Korea, which seemingly had...